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All Bets Are Off Part I
My extremely simplified recap of how I think we got where we are… Who do you suppose first stood upright, cooked food, sheltered in caves, constructed huts, wrapped animal skins around themselves and whatever other first you can imagine? These people changed our paradigm, our world view, and nothing would ever be the same again. […]
All Bets Are Off Part II
All Bets Are Off Part II My extremely simplified recap of how I think we get where we are and why and how we need to change, continued. As the world grew toward today, population spread through exploration and conquest. If you were on the winning side of these equations life became relatively safer, but […]
Headline Haiku
More than 1,000 Uprisings continue needs Death warning art world Thousands out in cold Assault on girl after dance Education breakdowns Selection begins Selfishness will end career Bigotry, just fine 1960s hits Time follows sunset horror Studios to close Mentor clobbers champ Jurors face man found shot, death Defense suspension Murder advantage Show follows jail-time […]
INSANITY IN GENERAL
INSANITY IN GENERAL (A paean to Tea-Party paranoia) (Sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General) We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information violent, atrocical and criminal We know the guns of murder, and we quote the deaths statistical From Birmingham to Newtown in order […]
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Headline Haiku
This is my form of haiku which embraces our modern world by using only words culled from the headlines and sub-heads found in my daily newspaper. I hope to discover a sense, a tone of daily life. I do not change words, other than in the use of capitalization and hyphenated words previously used adjectively. […]